Thread:SillyPotato/@comment-1164563-20190430000439/@comment-1164563-20190501010002

While I mostly agree with the rest of your post (despite having some preferences in headcanons, which I do separate from canon facts in my head), I will have to disagree on this one point.

SillyPotato wrote: Also if you insist this "mother" is Eva, then why would Dante be called Tony? When Dante went by his real name when she was still alive???

Unless something in the DMC1 novel suddenly contradicts this, this is very new canon, confirmed only with DMC5 release. At the time anime was written, Dante going by the nickname Tony in his childhood wouldn't have contradicted anything. And writers don't have to be prescient of later retcons, cut them some slack.